History Main / AuthorCatchPhrase

* "It came to pass" appears 1,297 times in ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon''.

* Various enemies from ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}'' use the expression "rip the flesh from your bones" or a variation of it when engaged or as a battlecry.

* Games created by Creator/SonicTeam will have the line "long time no see" in most of their games, even the ones not related to ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''.

* Steven Moffat is rather fond of his "What will you do with it? Assemble cabinets?" joke at the sonic screwdriver's expense.

* Every ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book begins with the first person narrator saying something to the effect of: "My name is ''(blank). I can't tell you my last name, or what city I live in, or even what state. I can tell (about the Yeerks...)." This made the revelation of one character's last name very meaningful: with the villains aware of their identities and able to come down on them in force, there was now no reason to bothering hiding their last names, along with ages. (Jake's is [[spoiler: Berenson]], by the way.)

* Whenever a larger-than-human opponent shows up in a story written by Creator/JohnByrne, except the phrase "How can something so big be [[FasterThanTheyLook so fast]]" or a variant thereof to be said at some point.

Related: SignatureStyle, AuthorVocabularyCalendar, IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime.

* Brad Meltzer has used the line "I'm not obsessed/addicted. I can stop any day I want, but today won't be that day. Neither will tomorrow..." in both the ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' miniseries and ''The Book Of Fate''.

* At least twice, a character "[[HaveAGayOldTime ejaculates]]".

** She is unusual in that with each ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book, she seemed to pick a particular unusual word to use multiple times, though generally usage of the word is not restricted to just one of the books. For example, in ''Half Blood Prince'', she uses the word "surreptitiously" about seven or eight times. And just try and count how many times a character "[[HaveAGayOldTime ejaculates]]".

* Creator/PGWodehouse had scads of these; mark, for example, the number of times he compares the eyes of characters to those of (different varieties of) fish, or likens a character's expression of disgust to that of someone fishing a caterpillar out of a salad.

** [[LampshadeHanging "That was a]] [[JustForPun pune]], or play on words..." (in various permutations).

Contrast with CatchPhrase, where the same line or quote is used by characters in a single work.

** They have a liking for describing vast rooms as "cyclopean" and doorways as "tenebrous." The first three books in the series start by recounting the same story ([[spoiler:how Horus killed the Emperor]]) but with very different inflections and context, although this is less an AuthorCatchphrase and more ArcWords.

** The phrase "Let's be about it", while originally Literature/HonorHarrington's CatchPhrase, has been used in several other works. The same thing might be happening to [[Literature/{{Safehold}} Merlin's]] "One tries".

* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': In Episode 40 - "Brexit at Dunkirk", host Indy Neidell reuses the CatchPhrase "this is modern war" from ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar''.

* Creator/Iron117Prime loves to reuse a lot of lines and dialogue concepts across his fanfics with some variations. Notable examples include:

* Creator/Iron117Prime loves to reuse a lot of lines across his fanfics with some variations. Notable examples include:

** [[DontTrustThoseGuys "If you trust X, you will regret it."]] [[note]] X often indicates who exactly is the CrossoverVillainInChief of the fanfic. [[/note]]

** [[YouMonster "YOU MONSTER!" or "YOU'RE A MONSTER"]]

** "You talk too much." (in response to someone who is usually a loudmouth)

** "How can anyone be so cruel...be so evil"

* Creator/StephenieMeyer uses the words 'chagrin' and 'dazzle' amazingly frequently in her ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books. 'Chagrin' was also used quite a few times in her other book, ''Literature/TheHost2008''. Those words are used so frequently, in fact, that the fans who love to hate Meyer and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' use the phrase 'chagrined my dazzle' to express sadness or disappointment.

* Everything by Simon Furman. EVERYTHING. He uses certain phrases so much that they have become known as [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism "Furmanisms"]] amongst the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fandom, and are something of a joke. (Even Furman knows about them and uses them consciously.) A few favorites, with the Furmanism in bold, include: